Ornamental chain



( No Model.)

0. H. WARE.

ORNAMENTA'L CHAIN.

No. 283,542. Patented Au 21, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLEVELAND H. "WARE, "WRENTHAM, ASSIGNOB TO LINCOLN, BACON & CO,

OF PLAINVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

ORNAMENTAL CHAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,542, datedAugust 21, 188 3.

Application filed May I1 1883. (No model.)

.To all 1011,0121, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLEVELAND H. XVARE, of \Vrentham, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Ornamental Chains, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention relates to that class of ornamental chain which is formed of transverselyarranged tnbnlarlinks connected lay-means of wire hooks, which are made to enter the open ends of the tubular links, such chain being Very commonly used for making bracelets; and it consists in the improved construction and arrangement of the wire hooks for formin the chain, as hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure 1 is a plan View of the ornamental front of the chain. Fig. 2 is a plan iew of the back of the chain, which would form the inner side of a bracelet. Fig. 3 is an edge View of the chain. Fig. at is an elevation. of the wire hook. Fig. 5 is a plan; and Fig. 6, a

section, taken in the line is w of 5, of the intermediate ornamental plate arranged between the tubular links.

In the accompanying drawings, A A A are the tubular links, which may be made either plain or ornamented, as desired.

B B are theinterinediate pieces oi'ornam ented sheet metal from which the spurs a a are cut and raised at one side of the openings I) I), as shown in Figs. 5 and (3.

The connecting-hooks C C are made of wire bent in the form of a double hook, as shown in Fig.4, and when inserted in the open ends of the tubular links A A the spurs a a of the intermediate pieces, B, are bent downward over the middle portion of the hooks (has shown in Fig. 2, thus forming a chain with great ease and rapidity, which is especially adapted for the construction of bracelets.

I claim as 1nyinventio11 An ornamental chain comprising the tubular links A A A, the double wire hooks C C, and theinterinediate ornamental pieces, B, )rovided with the raised spurs a a, made initial with the pieces B, and closed over the middle portion of the hooks C, substantially as described.

CLEVELASD H. AKE.

\Vitnesses J. E. POND, Jr., WILLIs P. GUILD. 

